3 SEPTEMBER 1870, Page 2

A correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, who is in the

Prince's Camp before Metz, says dysentery is telling heavily there, owing to the German habit—which they will abandon after this war— of camping without tents. He met a French mounted officer, who told him, what we have always suspected, that at Spicheren the artillery were speedily without ammunition, and the French did not receive the supports they had a right to expect—a curious confirmation of a story repeated everywhere, that one of the French Generals refused to advance, pleading counter-orders. The story is impossible, but it is stated.